Our group of 14 dining at home of Tatiana, at Glückstal. Photographs by JoAnne Mertz Gauper.

Moldova. Photographs by JoAnne Mertz Gauper.

Esther (Mertz) Opp and local man at old Strassburg. Photographs by JoAnne Mertz Gauper.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Prints hanging inside Heimatmuseum de Deutschen in Stuttgart. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.

Tombstones among overgrown lilac bushes in former Neu-Glückstal cemetery. Photographs by Lori Gauper Kishel.